‘Company’ can mean a group of like-minded people

My third company was in the TV business with some Americans.

At least I thought it was my company, but the only “like-mindedness” about us was that we all thought it was our company! So I learned that business partnerships are like marriages. After two “divorces” I figured that I might be better on my own and that is what I did in my final years in TV.

Actually I learned that, as with any relationship, it is more important to like the people you are in business with than to need them. That’s when I started YO! Sushi.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere, if only out of curiosity.

General Colin Powell

When I was young I read Arthur Conan Doyle’s The White Company about a group of adventurers who rode around old England. I have always seen the word “company” this way. When a group of people are enjoying the same mission, quantum leaps in achievement can happen.

  • Take Away

    Questioning your company

  • They used to call me the steam roller – what would your nickname be?

  • If you were in business would you be a “go-it-aloner” or a “sharer-with-others” and why?

  • Can you let go? When people you work with make mistakes, how do you react?

  • Ask the people you work with what they think you’ll be doing 5 or 10 years from now.

  • Then ask them what they think you could be doing if you were really to fly.

  • What advice would you give yourself if “yourself” asked you?